re:TPPi1200 install
The idea of using the bootable CD that came with the thinkpad was a good
one: it worked! This thinkpad came with its own bootable cd for
restoring the windows software originally on the machine. This cd boots
to a dos program, and you can escape to a dos prompt via F3. This DOS
recovery program assigned the thinkpad's cd player to drive X:. From
there, I was able to switch cd's, go into the /install directory on the
debian cd, run install.bat, and on to the usual debian install, which
proceeded without a hiccup. Thanks.
For what it's worth, XF86Setup configured this machine quite readily to
800x600 mode. Everything so far is working nicely (except for that poor
winmodem, but that hardly counts).
Mark
Reply to: